An extreme flood caused by a heavy snowfall over the Indigirka River basin in Northeastern Siberia

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Tei, Shunsuke, Morozumi, Tomoki, Nagai, Shin, Takano, Shinya, Sugimoto, Atsuko, Shingubara, Ryo, Fan, Rong, Fedorov, Alexander, Gavrilyeva, Tuyara, Tananaev, Nikita, Maximov, Trofim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Indigirka; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13601; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fhyp.13601; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.13601; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/hyp.13601

Abstract Flooding is one of the greatest disasters that produces strong effects on the ecosystem and livelihoods of the local population. Flood frequency is expected to increase globally making its risk assessment an urgent issue. In spring‐summer 2017, an extreme flooding occurred in the Indigirka...